- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether there is currently any shortage of prison officers and, if so, what the shortage is.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service, to respond. His response is as follows:There is no shortage of prison officers.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2002
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Answered by Jim Wallace on 20 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is satisfactory that on 18 February 2002 the woodwork shed at HM Prison Kilmarnock was staffed by one supervisor for 20 inmates and whether this level of supervision is adequate given that there are blind spots in the security camera system.
Answer
I have asked Tony Cameron, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service to respond. His response is as follows:I refer the member to the answer given to question S1W-23282.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S1W-17830 and S1W-19099 by Susan Deacon on 27 September and 12 November 2001, how many patients are now in receipt of equipment for the treatment of sleep apnoea.
Answer
There are at present 2,355 patients in Scotland receiving Continuous Positive Airway Pressure therapy, for sleep apnoea.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22295 by Malcolm Chisholm on 7 February 2002, how many of the 88 young people on the waiting list of the Young People's Unit are from the Scottish Borders.
Answer
There are no patients from the Borders on the waiting list for the Young People's Unit.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-22295 by Malcolm Chisholm on 7 February 2002, how many of the 88 young people on the waiting list of the Young People's Unit are from East Lothian.
Answer
There are nine patients on the waiting list for the Young People's Unit, who are registered with East Lothian general practitioners.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2002
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 19 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-17093 by Susan Deacon on 15 August 2001, what the outcome has been of the review of the sleep apnoea service provided by the Sleep Centre in Edinburgh.
Answer
The outcome of the review was an agreement by NHS Lothian to fund services for Lothian patients in 2001-02 at the same level as applied in 2000-01. NHS Lothian agreed to consider future funding levels for sleep disorder services, in the context of strategic and financial planning for 2002-03. The outcome of the review in respect of other NHS boards which send patients to the Sleep Centre, was that additional funding would be provided in 2001-02, with future funding levels being reviewed in the context of planning for 2002-03. Information about planned funding levels for 2002-03 is not yet available.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 February 2002
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Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 18 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-3316 by Peter Peacock on 7 February 2000, what the current (a) allocation per nursery place is to local authorities and (b) minimum recommended payment to the provider is.
Answer
In the current session, 2001-02, local authorities receive funding at the rate of £1,254 for a fully loaded part-time pre-school education place. They are free to top slice this level to meet the costs of services provided to their partner providers. The minimum recommended level for the purchase of places in the voluntary and private sector is £900.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 March 2002
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Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 15 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to its press release SE4015/2001 on 19 September 2001, how many NHS trusts have had their financial deficits written off; how much was written off; when the deficits were written off, and who authorised the writing off of each deficit, broken down by NHS trust.
Answer
Susan Deacon announced on 19 September 2001, an allocation of an additional £90 million for the NHS in Scotland. Using these resources, seven trusts had their financial deficits written off in this financial year (2001-02).The following amounts were applied against the cumulative deficits of NHS trusts:
| | £000 |
| Argyll & Clyde Acute | 3,035 |
| Renfrewshire & Inverclyde PCT | 1,077 |
| Grampian Acute | 4,914 |
| North Glasgow Acute | 9,491 |
| South Glasgow Acute | 4,092 |
| Highland Acute | 2,744 |
| Tayside Acute | 15,852 |
| Total | 41,205 |
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 March 2002
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Current Status:
Answered by Jim Wallace on 14 March 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive, with regard to the letter to me from the Deputy First Minister and Minister for Justice on 26 February 2002 about the publication of the contract between the Scottish Prison Service and Kilmarnock Prison Services Limited, what is meant by "early next month".
Answer
The contract was published on the Scottish Prison Service website (www.sps.gov.uk) on 8 March 2002.
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2002
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Answered by Peter Peacock on 21 February 2002
To ask the Scottish Executive on what basis extended borrowing was approved for the Western Isles Council following the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International.
Answer
Western Isles Islands Council lost £23 million following the collapse of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International. Since there was no immediate prospect of recovering the money and no chance of continuing to be in a position to discharge its statutory obligations without revenue borrowing, the council wrote to the Secretary of State in August 1991 requesting special borrowing consent to replace the £23 million. Exceptionally, on account of the scale of the loss in relation to the council's total financial resources, the Secretary of State granted the council consent to borrow in terms of paragraph 1(2) of schedule 3 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1975 to make good the shortfall and maintain its day-to-day cash flow requirements during the remainder of 1991-92. Since the loss was consequent on ultra vires investment activity, the terms of the consent specified that the interest and repayment costs of the borrowing must be met entirely by the council without any grant aid or other financial assistance from the Government.
